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Sympoïétique Collaboration Guide Index
Logging In 2
Creating New Content 2 Content Types 4 Basics 4
READ 9 Styles 9 Images 10 References 11
LISTEN 12 Soundcloud 13 Mixcloud 14
WATCH 15 Youtube 15 Vimeo 16
INTERACT 18
LIVE 18
Notes 21
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Logging In
The Sympoïétique site can be found here. As the site is not yet open to the public, you’ll be prompted to enter your login credentials which you should have received over email. If you have not yet received your login or have an issue with your login feel free to contact either Marc-André Cossette ([email protected]) or Matthew Halpenny ([email protected]).
Creating New Content
After logging in you’ll be brought to the main site. In the main navigation bar you can choose which content is displayed on the home page or you can go into the collaboration portal. To add content, let’s choose Collaborate.
In Collaborate, you'll see four options. To create any kind of contribution click Create New Content.
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You’ll be brought to a content editor that looks like this:
Each type of contribution can be added in this editor. As you can see at the top there are tabs for different sections of the contribution. The Content tab, which you see above, is where you add any text information and is mainly used for the READ section or to expand other sections. This guide will take you through which sections are relevant to your contribution and what information you need to add. There will be a specific guide for each section, but every contribution will have the same basic information that needs to be filled out. So to begin, let's look at the basics.
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Content Types Overall, 5 content types can be added: READ : written work or article based contributions. LISTEN : audio based contributions (soundcloud or mixcloud). WATCH : pre-recorded, visual contributions (youtube, vimeo, etc). INTERACT : interactive pieces that include external web elements embedded in article form. LIVE : live scheduled events. Basics
Before you start adding content there are a few pieces of important information you need to add. The first is to change your publishing type, which can be found under the Publishing tab.
Your type will be entered under the Category section and will be whichever type you intend to submit. Once this is set the site will be able to categorize your content, allowing it to appear on the main page where you can edit it after posting, without this your content will not show up. If you ever need to edit your content after posting it (or you accidentally forget information) you can find your contribution on the site, click it, and then click edit in the bottom right corner.
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If you are adding something in LIVE there are two types of Categories to choose from, so be careful. If you are scheduling an upcoming event choose Upcoming Live Scheduling. If you are posting the Live event itself choose Live. To avoid confusion, if you are posting a Live event please make sure to read over the LIVE section before finishing the creation of your contribution. The LIVE section will explain the differences between the two categories in more depth, but it's safe to say if you’re an early contributor (before it's open to the public), you’ll be scheduling an event - so you can add Upcoming Live Scheduling to your Category. Under the Publishing tab you will also need to add the information for Tags. Tags, found below Category, help the site organize into relevant sections. Here you can see two example tags, BioArt and Machine Agencies. Tags will be provided, you do not need to create them. Whichever you think fits best with your work please add. You will later add Keywords that will show up on your contribution and give the reader a more accurate selection of relevant topics. For now you wont need to change anything beyond Status as this feature is mainly reserved for when the site is open to the public. You’ll notice the save button at the end. This saves all your info in every tab, not just Publishing. So do not click save yet, let's add the rest of our info first.
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After this, go to the Identification tab, most of your submissions information will be here. The first thing you can add is a Thumbnail. This image will act as the background image of your contribution and will be displayed on the main page. Your Main Image will be displayed within your contribution page, it may be the same if you’d like. Thumbnail
Main Image
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Inside Identification you need to add an Abstract, Keywords, and Length. For the Keywords make sure to separate them by commas for consistency. If you are contributing a word based piece, the Length will be in total words. If you’re contributing a video or live piece, it will be in minutes or hours.
In the Metadata tab, you can optionally add metadata which will show up on search engines.
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Lastly, let's add out Title. To add a title we need to go to the Content tab.
This Title will be appear across the site to represent your contribution, here it can be seen it the READ section when reading an article:
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For the next steps, jump ahead to whichever type of contribution fits you. If you’re adding a READ contribution you can keep reading.
READ
If you’re contributing something in READ you’ve most likely already written a piece externally. Our editor will take what you’ve written and compile it into HTML markup for the website. Because we’re dealing with conversion we find it easiest to add piece by piece. These pieces are largely divided into the follows: SubTitles Images Paragraph bodies Captions If you want to start adding text the editor contains all the default styling pre selected. For subtitles, simply start typing into the editor as can be seen with my test subtitle “ I. Introduction” below. Because we want our subtitles to look different from other text we’ll add a custom sympoietique Style. Styles
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We’ve created Styles to be added to your work so you don't have to worry about formatting, each of this will be prefaced with “sympoietique-” For our subtitle let’s highlight it and click on the drop down style menu, then add sympoietique-subtitle1. There are two choices for subtitles, we can also add sympoietique-subtitle2, which is slightly smaller than the first and is made for sub-subtitles.
For regular text we don’t need to add any styling, we just need to paste it inside the editor. Most of the work we’ll need to do in the READ section is applying styles to what you’ve already written, because whatever text you paste will automatically have its styling removed and everything will become uniform text. Images are a bit trickier since we can't paste them into the editor, let’s go through how to add them. Images If you decide you want to incorporate an Images we have a few options which will be inside the addition screen. First, click on the Insert/Edit Image button.
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In the popup modal, you'll see a list of folders in the left sidebar. Each contributor has a folder for any images they want to upload. Find your name under CONTRIBUTORS, and click on your folder.
In your folder click the Upload button and select a file from your computer.
Once the image is uploaded you'll be given the option to change its dimensions or change its Alignment. When choosing an Alignment you'll be given a preview of how it fits with your text, choose whichever looks best to you. If you choose Center and want it to align with the text, the max width of the article will always be 600, we recommend changing the width of the image to 600 - but max sure to leave the Proportional checkbox checked, we don't want to distort the image. Under your image you can add a Figure. Paste your figure in the editor below your image and apply the style sympoietique-figure-text.
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References When you’re done adding your submission you can copy and paste your References at the end of your content. Type out References, and apply the sympoietique-reference-title style.
This Style will add a line to the page, creating a separate section. In this section, paste in your References.
If you would like to make your READ submission downloadable you can upload a PDF in the Upload PDF Article section. The PDF will appear in a download button in the left hand side of the site next
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to your author name.
LISTEN
When adding an audio based contribution the first thing you need to do is add embedded code in the Contribution Listen tab. This section will walk you through using either SoundCloud or MixCloud to do this. If you would like to add further info on your contribution you can check out how to add text in the READ section.
Soundcloud Go to the file you want to embed on Soundcloud and click Share.
Click Embed, select the middle player, and copy the code.
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Mixcloud Go to the file you want to embed on Mixcloud and click Share.
Select Embed Player, Classic Widget, and copy the code.
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Now paste the code you copied from either Soundcloud or Mixcloud and paste it into the section in Contribution Listen.
WATCH
For pre-recorded video content, you'll build off of the basic information you created earlier. As per all sections, you can add more information alongside your video by following the READ section. Your video will be placed at the top of an article, to do this go to the Contribution Watch section and paste embedding code inside the Video Embed Code field. Below it's shown where you can find embed code for Youtube and Vimeo.
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Youtube Go to the video you want to embed on Youtube and click Share.
DO NOT copy the code on this page, click the Embed button and then copy the code on the Embed Video page.
Vimeo Go to the video you want to embed on Vimeo and click Share.
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Click on Show options.
For Vimeo links, it's important to do the following in the next step: Make sure Responsive is selected, and deselect the bottom two checkboxes that say “Show text underneath this video” and “Show video description below video”. After that copy the code in the Embed section.
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Now paste the code you’ve copied from YouTube or Vimeo and paste in the Contribution Watch section. To make things simple, everyone uploading a Watch Contribution will need to create their own accounts in either YouTube or Vimeo. Though the content will be shared through Hexagram, having your own accounts means you retain ownership and can upload or edit videos at any time.
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INTERACT
For Contribution Experience, interactive content must be hosted outside of the main site. To do this you need to provide an external link to the experience in the Full Site URL field. You can create an (optional) article about your work in the Content section if you would like viewers to have a brief description of your work. You may also embed images in the Content section if you’d like.
To learn more about creating an article, see the READ section.
LIVE
When creating a LIVE contribution you need to first create an Upcoming Live Schedule. Make sure to mark your Category information as Upcoming Live Schedule. This information is displayed on the bottom of the homepage to let visitors know of upcoming Live events. For this section, in addition to the basic information, we need to add the following under the Live Schedule tab:
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The information needed here is the Time, Date, and Authors (separated by commas). Once this is added you can view your schedule event at the bottom of the main page.
Whatever image you chose as your Thumbnail earlier on will apply to the image seen in the schedule. As there's no article view for scheduled events the Main Image does not apply. When your event is approaching, you can create an Active Live Show which will include the same information with an included Youtube Live link. This will be created on the day of your event, the same day you'll be creating the live video. Because of the way the site is set up and to keep things simple, live streaming will be limited to Youtube. Like the schedule before, we need to fill out a special section, this time it will be under Active Live Show, rather than Live Schedule.
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To get your Youtube link go to your live video on Youtube and click Share.
Copy the link provided in the next modal.
The next LIVE event will always be shown in the top right part of the site.
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If there's a Live video being broadcast you can also find it in the bottom beside the schedule.
Notes
If you have any questions please reach out to either Marc-André Cossette ([email protected]) or Matthew Halpenny ([email protected]). There are also video tutorials available under the Collaborate section if you need any further information. Thanks for being a contributor.